![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Enchanted April, the castello and its gardens works its magic on four women who discover each other through an advert in a London newspaper announcing the castle’s availability as a holiday rental. Just like her characters, von Arnim was captivated by San Salvatore, a medieval castello on the hillside looking over the fishing village:Īcross the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light and underneath her window, at he bottom of the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword. This novel about four women who take a holiday in Portofino, was apparently inspired by Elizabeth von Arnim’s own sojourn in that part of the coastline. On a dark and gloomy winter day, what a joy it was to be transported to the sunny climes of the Italian Riveria, courtesy of The Enchanted April. ![]()
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